Actually Portable Executables

Re:Actually Portable Executables by thysultan on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:33AM (#26292935)

How does one unzip the .com file? Is that even possible or have i misunderstood how it works?

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Re:Actually Portable Executables by jart on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:50AM (#26293041)

I recommend using InfoZIP on the Linux or Mac command line. For example, to list the files that are in your .com executables you can run a command like:

    $ wget https://justine.lol/redbean/redbean-2021-02-27.com
    $ unzip -vl redbean-2021-02-27.com
    Archive:  redbean-2021-02-27.com
     Length   Method    Size  Cmpr    Date    Time   CRC-32   Name
    --------  ------  ------- ---- ---------- ----- --------  ----
         426  Defl:N      215  50% 02-09-2021 09:24 f9cc9464  tool/net/redbean.css
         896  Defl:N      509  43% 02-09-2021 09:24 eb74f8a0  tool/net/redbean.html
       16958  Defl:N     6093  64% 02-09-2021 09:24 6a76bd39  tool/net/redbean.ico
        5073  Stored     5073   0% 02-09-2021 09:24 86c2afe6  tool/net/redbean.png
         554  Defl:N      285  49% 02-09-2021 09:24 0aa6870a  usr/share/zoneinfo/Beijing
        2335  Defl:N     1093  53% 02-09-2021 09:24 6ccd4450  usr/share/zoneinfo/Berlin
        2453  Defl:N     1170  52% 02-09-2021 09:24 7fed6d80  usr/share/zoneinfo/Boulder
    ...

Another ZIP tool that works well with APE is Windows 10 file explorer. But you have to change the extension from .com to .zip temporarily.

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